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Wardenclyffe Tower

Submitted by jackjwa on September 12, 2012

Is there any possibility that electric cars could be supplied power using Tesla's Wardenclyffe Tower? This would eliminate recharging and make the range infinate. We could charge subscriptions to pay for the towers.
Just wondered if this could work.
Jack

Timo |
September 12, 2012

No.

Inefficient, expensive, etc. etc. etc.

Wireless charging is possible, but Tesla "free energy" Tower is not free energy and is far from being efficient enough to be useful. That's like asking if Wright Brothers plane could be used for transatlantic flights.

DTimeLord1967 |
October 5, 2015

Timo | SEPTEMBER 12, 2012
No.

Inefficient, expensive, etc. etc. etc.

Wireless charging is possible, but Tesla "free energy" Tower is not free energy and is far from being efficient enough to be useful. That's like asking if Wright Brothers plane could be used for transatlantic flights.

..... And; just like the "Wright Brothers", you got to start somewhere. With that being said; the science/physics of flight, must require the proper materials, and the proper placement of those materials, to achieve the maximum efficiency of man-made flight. So, Timo; such as what we know as powered flight, and where it started; "Wireless Power" rediscovered in the 21st century; (where it is desperately needed), in small applications, and experimentation; is surely justified, as the Genesis of a revolution in alternative energy. The "practical" expectations of Tesla's Wardenclyffe generator, have not been seen yet in fruition. So, give it time; hopefully this one will not take 50 to 100 years to make it so.

Timo |
October 5, 2015

Wardenclyffe tower is Wright Brothers flyer. You can't make it magically better unless you completely change everything in it. And I mean everything starting from the fact that it is a tower.

This is a problem with Tesla nuts, they don't understand that we now know more than Tesla ever did, and have already proven that many of the Tesla assumptions were simply wrong.

Ø |
October 6, 2015

Nikola says so.........

Dramsey |
October 6, 2015

Nikola also fell in love with a pigeon. Sadly, your father did not.

Darko |
October 7, 2015

In his papers Tesla was mentioning 1-2 KW of power available at any destination point; also a ground connection is required for the receiving device - in case of a car, it would be almost impossible; so even theoretically, this would not work...

georgehawley.fl.us |
October 8, 2015

I'm sorry, @jack and @Dramsey, I had to laugh, despite the nasty, misanthropic implication. I am so old that I thought it was spelled "pidgeon". :-))

(It's fun that Phi thinks that Tesla's whacko ideas, unproven after a century of effort, are the Revealed Truth, but when I point out this same genius honestly believed he could talk to pigeons, it "doesn't prove anything." Love that cognitive dissonance you got going there, kid.)